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Friday, January 6, 2017

OWASP Operations Update for January 2017

Welcome to the first operations update for 2017. We started monthly blogs about what's happening at the OWASP Foundation back in December.

Here's our major efforts and status of those in process starting with updates from last time:

The Website Reboot aka TWR - a major effort to update and modernize OWASP's web presence. Since last month, we've

Made progress on Phase 1 - updating the wiki to 1.27.x

Got the wiki source and all extensions in Git repos

Started coding Ansible to automate our deploys and updates

Production roll-out - mid-January

Next up Phase 2 - Updating the look and feel of the OWASP Wiki

Blocked: waiting for the 2017 Budget to get approved by the OWASP Board

The OWASP Communications Plan - a staff-created plan to professionalize how OWASP interacts with its community and the world at large. There’s a ton of moving parts to this effort but here’s what we focusing on currently:

2 comments:

Suggestion #1Add a link to the upcoming meeting page and agenda if anyone reading this update wants to join the upcoming meeting that drives the motions forward. The meetings are open to all members of the association and the general public that has something to put on the agenda before the meeting starts.

Suggestion #2 Update all the staff on the https://www.owasp.org/index.php/About_OWASP#Employees_and_Contractors_of_the_OWASP_Foundation page so the community can see faces with names and know what everyone is responsible for.